An excellent diagonal youth should be a "horizontal bar" youth first, that is, he has his own core advantages, and this horizontal bar is the basis of his foothold. For example, my core strength is knowledge management, and almost all other skills come from knowledge management. For example, the core strength of a fierce cat is talking, and other skills are also based on this.

Want to be a slash youth, the first career is actually very important! As I said before, slash youth are people who love their work very much, including their own work. Before opening up a second field, they usually make small achievements in their work. Of course, there will be exceptions. For example, some young people listen to their parents' wishes, enter fields they don't like, do things as required every day, and have little enthusiasm for their work. Instead, develop your own specialties in your spare time and gradually develop your own brand.

I once met a trainer who graduated from junior high school after 1980. He worked at Foxconn, working during the day and learning programming by himself at night. Later, he developed an application and sold it in the Apple Store. He not only earned considerable income, but also obtained Apple certification. He left Foxconn. He didn't set up a company, but he was driving alone, and he didn't buy a house at that time (because he didn't contact again and didn't know the future development), but he was very free. I was making an investment and invited him to work in our company. He refused to go, saying that he couldn't adapt to a big company and liked it now. Anyway, life is good and there is no need for bondage.

At that time, I asked him: What if this APP can't be sold? He said disdainfully, then develop another one. What an ambitious young man! He has depth and is not arrogant.

As a slash youth, Zoic, a well-known operator/writer from the media, believes that-

Curiosity is important. With curiosity, you can have many hobbies.

Ambition is important. If you have hobbies, you don't want to just have fun. If you want to make achievements, you must have ambition.

Self-management is very important. If you are a person who loves Ge You Paralysis, you are not suitable to be a slash youth; * * * or a freelancer, everything depends on consciousness. If there is no time constraint and lack of self-management ability, they will only become lazier.

If you want to be a slash youth, my advice to the fierce cat is-

Do a good job in horizontal bar youth first, and have their own core competitive advantages.

Do a good job of self-investment. After all, it takes time, money and energy to explore other fields, and it needs to constantly learn knowledge and practice skills. When you are stuck in a thinking bottleneck, you need to travel and broaden your horizons.

Do one thing well and then continue to do the same thing. Generally speaking, one's energy is limited, and it is impossible to carry out ten fronts at the same time. It is best to deepen the foundation after capturing a city, and then enter new fields; If you go straight ahead, there will be more and more slow diagonal lines. However, too many diagonal lines are not a good thing. It's better to have a verifiable true slash. For example, if you want to be a writer, you must write at least a few books, and the sales volume is not bad; For example, if you want to be an online celebrity, you must have at least100000 fans.

Self-management is very important, so we should grasp it well. Be careful with every slash. You should have the ability of self-discipline and self-management, know how to allocate time, energy and interpersonal relationships reasonably, and take care of your own knowledge system.

Keep developing your potential. The reason why many people can't become slash youth is not that they are incapable, but that they lack the spirit of brave exploration. They just said they didn't want to do it, and they had a wide range of interests but didn't dabble in it. In this case, there is no way to become a slash youth, and we must constantly look for our hobbies and potential abilities. We should pursue every field in depth, reach professional standards, reach market recognition, and establish our own value to give back.

So, how can we cultivate young people on the horizontal bar through knowledge management? A reasonable horizontal bar ability structure needs to include two parts-basic ability and professional ability.

Do a good job in basic skills and improve your own ability. Basic abilities include reading ability, thinking ability and writing ability.

These three basic abilities are introduced, absorbed, transformed and released by knowledge in turn. Some basic abilities have been completed in school education, and you need to constantly improve yourself after graduation. Reading ability also includes language ability, because if you can master one more language, especially a world language like English, you can gain knowledge more quickly and directly by reading the original text instead of relying on other people's translation. The writing ability is similar. If you can write skillfully in English, your online social interaction will expand and your influence will increase.

First, how to exercise reading ability

Recommend the classic book "How to Read a Book", and make this book clear, please note that it is "thorough"! In this way, reading ability will be greatly improved. Secondly, I recommend Zhao Zhou's "Open Books" series: this is enough reading, open your communication I and open your communication II. Schulte table is recommended as a tool to improve reading speed. Through this exercise, you can expand the sight distance.

The more books you read, the richer your knowledge, and the higher your speed and quality. Many people read slowly because they read word by word silently, and often need to stop and think because of their lack of understanding ability. Reading more books will enhance your understanding ability, which will also change the habit of silent reading, and your reading ability will naturally improve. As for the change of silent reading habits, you can try to point your finger or pen at what you want to read while reading, and move at a moderate speed, so that your eyes can keep up with the moving speed and focus on your eyes, not your mouth. In addition, writing book reviews is also a good way to enhance reading comprehension. But it should be noted that book reviews are not reading notes. Try not to copy the original content, but focus on your own understanding and sentiment.

Second, how to exercise thinking ability

Recommend five books, from easy to difficult-

The first lesson of McKinsey induction training is very basic and can be said to be an introductory book. The space is not long, the basic concepts have been included, and they are all easy to understand, suitable for newcomers in the workplace or people with weak thinking ability. Do not underestimate simplicity. It is also a skill to make complex things simple and useful.

Learning to think independently easily focuses on "lightness". Because the content overlaps with the first course of McKinsey induction training, it is more in-depth and comprehensive. It is a very advanced book to analyze how to think independently with many cases close to life and workplace, but for many people, the thickness of the book may stop here, and the thickness does not mean boring. A lot of explanations and homework assignments make people more relaxed.

The Technology of Thinking This book by Kenichi Ohmae is a very popular thinking book, which many consultants can refer to at any time and is also suitable for other industries. The book also mentions some of McKinsey's thinking methods. In fact, McKinsey's method has really influenced many people, but on this basis, Kenichi Ohmae also has his own views, both micro and macro, with a comprehensive perspective, which is related to Kenichi Ohmae's experience. After all, he has worked as a consultant in some countries.

The book Thinking, Fast and Slow has reached the depth of thinking, and it is actually good to be willing to take it as the starting point of independent thinking, just like conquering a mountain and a hill first. However, considering that for many people, the technical study of thinking still has priority, this book ranks behind. This book is difficult to read, but if you can think more, apply more and understand every knowledge point in the process of reading, then your thinking ability will naturally be by going up one flight of stairs.

Beyond knowledge, a 470-page book contains a lot of information. Not a general explanation, but training.

Especially in the second part, 60 tools of the complete CoRT thinking training course are introduced, and the thinking skills are explained in detail from six aspects: thinking breadth, organization, interaction, creativity, information and emotion, and action. Through such training, it can help to establish an overall thinking framework. You have to practice repeatedly to master these thinking tools, but after you master them, you will benefit for life. Edward de bono, the author of this book, is a master in the field of thinking technology. If you think this thick book is a bit difficult even if it has the foundation of the first four books, you can start with his other books, such as Six Thinking Hats.

Third, how to improve writing ability

Akiba gives three passwords for writing high-quality articles.

The first password is not written too much, but determines the quality standard of writing.

Many people think that it is necessary to write and practice more if you want to write a good article, but writing and practicing more is not a sufficient condition for writing a good article. It's like ordinary people running and jogging every day 10 km, and it's amazing to run for 20 years. Quantitative change does not necessarily cause qualitative change, but conditional quantitative change can cause qualitative change. For example, many people insist on writing and publishing articles. You can understand that he decompresses himself by writing and hints to himself that he is growing, but in any case, he doesn't deliberately practice writing.

The first rule of "deliberate practice" is to make sure that you are practicing "what you have achieved". If you think you have a talent for sports and are going to be an athlete, the coach will definitely ask you: Do you want to make an evaluation? See what kind of sports are suitable for? How long will it take you to reach a certain level before entering the next round of competition? Who is your opponent? How much time and energy does it take to keep practicing every day? In order to ensure the quality of your training, do you want to participate in some competitions regularly? Similarly, if you want to train your writing skills, you must ask yourself, like a coach, which subject do you want to write? What style are you going to write? Who is the master of setting? How many exercises are you going to use to ensure and improve the quality of the article? How many quality posts do you have to accumulate to share with others? It is self-deception to talk only about the initial heart and not about the growth of the stage.

Don't write the second password more, read it more.

If you want to write an article, you can write it first, or you can watch how others write it and then imitate it, but you must read more anyway. For example, when I am going to write a film review, I will first think about how to write it myself, so that I can choose different starting points. Then I had an idea, so I looked through other people's film reviews and looked at other people's purposes, starting points, screen choices, contact cases, golden sentences, including the overall framework. After comparison, I will find the shortcomings and know the direction of improvement. To do this kind of research, we should use the comparative method of understanding, not just satisfied with how many articles we have browsed today. This is very superficial reading.

After reading it, what's good about an article? What's wrong with it? You should be able to see the gap between you and the author in reading and experience, so as to help you find the gap, and then improve the writing quality through the set target writing. However, many people's words are too easy to fall into the expression of * * *, and it is very enjoyable and healing to write their feelings in one breath, but can this quality text be published? Is there a sentence that everyone can remember after reading, so that they don't think I am pouring water and have no sincerity? Is the gap between me and the master shortened by this writing?

As an ordinary writer, I personally feel that I need to keep a little distance from my writing, so that I can think in the process of writing. When reading an article, we should also pay attention to two issues: first, look at really good prose and the style of really excellent writers; Second, we should look at different writing styles to avoid similarities. Often watching movies, listening to music and related artistic activities can stimulate the inspiration of writing, which is another value of "reading more" and broaden the thinking of writing.

Don't write more about the third password, but think more.

Since it became popular from the media a few years ago, it began to shout originality in the last two years, and more and more people picked up pens as if they were holding a glittering golden brick. So, I insisted on updating my post every day for 100 days, and unconsciously wrote100000 words. Inadvertently took a "simplified book" or WeChat original certification, and felt that I was going to fly to heaven. When writing encountered a bottleneck, I quickly signed up for several writing classes, and my learning spirit was still there. The next title is more powerful than the last one, but the question is, is the content of the article deep?

Good content comes from your deep thinking about a problem. With logical thinking, you can not only point out the essence of the problem, but also provide appropriate solutions. The knowledge analysis that can be written in one night, if it is not because you have accumulated enough experience in the past, I am afraid it is only because you have read a few books and gained a little insight, and combined the ideas in the books with your own stories, so it became an article, or put some ideas together and became the title of "Five things you have to know". These are not deep thinking, so-called deep thinking, first of all, you have to define the basic concepts clearly. For example, going back to our previous question, what is writing? What is quality writing? What is long-term quality writing?

You must really understand the simplest concept. You can write many topics better than most people. Moreover, whenever you put forward an idea, you will take the initiative to question it, which will lead to more and deeper thinking. For example, most people suggest writing more. I tell you with three suggestions that writing more may not be useful! Many people insist on updating 100 days every day, even if there is no 1 00000, there is100000. How many people have written it?

Please pay attention! It is not enough to read books to improve one's ability. Really improving a person's ability, such as reading ability, requires repeated training. If the speed and quality of reading do not improve, then the learning ability is not very high, and thinking and writing are things that need to be practiced. These exercises can actually be combined with work. You can determine the reading range according to your career planning and life goals, and pay attention to practice. Besides reading training, receiving training, including systematic adult education, such as MBA, is also effective. Nowadays, online courses and learning communities are also very developed, and systematic learning courses and participation courses are also good ways to absorb knowledge.